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The upset bug is alive in women’s college basketball, as 11 teams in my top 25 lost to lower-ranked or unranked opponents in the past week.
Some of the losses are tinged with injury: Iowa played its first games after Taylor McCabe’s torn ACL, Princeton lost Madison St. Rose to a knee injury in its loss to Columbia, veteran starter Maddie Scherr has been limited for TCU, and Maryland has slowly seen the decimation of its entire rotation.
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Others fell victim to unfriendly road environments. Baylor committed 30 turnovers in “Press” Virginia, while those same Mountaineers surrendered a 3-point barrage in Utah.
But there weren’t excuses for every team. Vanderbilt was gifted a neutral site when winter weather forced its game to be moved from Mississippi to Alabama and still came out flat in its second consecutive defeat. Tennessee might have been looking ahead to UConn and was beaten soundly by Mississippi State in Knoxville, Tenn. Washington had a chance to make up some ground after a win over the Terrapins but instead trailed the entire second half at home against Illinois. Texas Tech never led in its loss to Iowa State, and Georgia followed up two strong wins over Ole Miss and Kentucky with two single-digit quarters against Alabama.
Outside of the very top teams (really only UConn, though the other reigning Final Four squads have had their moments), consistency has been hard to find this season. Perhaps it’s a result of super conferences that force so many ranked teams to face each other on a regular basis, disrupting any chance of rhythm as they beat up on one another. It makes it all the more important to savor the wins because the losses are soon to follow.
Rank
Team
Previous rank
1
UConn
1
2
UCLA
3
3
South Carolina
2
4
Texas
4
5
Louisville
6
6
Vanderbilt
5
7
LSU
8
8
Michigan
9
9
Ohio State
10
10
Michigan State
15
11
Ole Miss
17
12
Oklahoma
18
13
Iowa
7
14
Kentucky
16
15
TCU
11
16
Baylor
12
17
Duke
21
18
Tennessee
13
19
Alabama
23
20
Maryland
14
21
Princeton
20
22
Washington
22
23
Texas Tech
24
24
West Virginia
25
25
NC…
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Publish date : 2026-02-02 11:46:00
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